Eraserhead?

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I'm sorry if this movie's been brought up before, but I was just curious what peoples' thoughts/opinions/reactions were in re: to David Lynch's "Eraserhead" film.

I saw it for the first time last year in my sophomore year of college, didn't understand any of it, and when I revisited it again later that year, I was more disturbed by it than I was during my first time watching it. I don't think I even got thru the whole movie the second time. Right now I'm watching it a third time on Youtube.

Has anyone else seen it? Has anyone else been able to figure out what it's about or what goes on it? I think I read somewhere (maybe on IMDB) that in the 36 or so years since the film's release, David Lynch has not really explained what the film is supposed to be about, and whenever someone approaches him and asks, "Was it about this, this, or this?" He cheerfully tells them, "No!"

So, yeah...thoughts? Opinions? Like it? Dislike it?

It's not my favorite Lynch movie, but it is maybe the one that scared me the most, and a lot of the imagery has stuck with me.

I've only seen it once, in college, at about 4am during a bout of insomnia after I'd been up for something like 30 hours. Loopy, semi-lucid state of mind + weird Lynch parenthood/baby-having fears = OVERWHELMING TERROR.

Very interesting experience though.

Blue Velvet's my favorite. Mulholland Drive I really liked to. The rest all fall in the "interesting to see at least once, but I don't particularly love/hate them" category.

Not only have I seen Eraserhead, but I also own the movie on DVD.
What's it about? The nearest I can figure is that it's about the fear of the consequences of sex. Henry had had sex with a woman who he's hardly close to or comfortable with - and vice versa - and now has learned he is the father of her child. And the child is a monster - literally and metaphorically. His dream girl - the lady in the radiator - steps on sperm and squishes them - kind of self-explanatory there. The Man in the Planet, who had started the whole thing with a pull of a lever that released the sperm, tries to save Henry at the end by drawing the lever back, but what's done is done. I have no explanation for Henry's head being turned into pencil erasers. And I don't know if Henry ending up with the lady in the radiator is something that's literally happened, or if it's his fantasy.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer